Rovio is hiringUX Design Intern
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We are now seeking to add a motivated and collaborative User Experience Designer Intern to join our flock at the Puzzle Studio for 6 months, in Barcelona, Spain. As an intern, you will be able to join a world-class design department and learn the ins and outs of UX creation, player motivations, and core game design from international experts. You will learn the practicalities of the craft such as the ins and outs of the design process and methodologies, latest design trends, and games. You will also need to actively engage with other disciplines, such as business, coding, design, research, marketing, and art. You will be part of the process from ideation to concepting and finally implementation of designs that will be played by millions of players and get to work with extensive data sets to learn and improve your creations.
You will have impact and fun at work by:
- Actively engaging in features/Game design meetings with game designers, game leads, product managers, analysts, and UX researchers to help in shaping and understanding the goals/problems of the feature or game.
- Assisting in visualising, communicating, and documenting a UX/UI design to the team through paper sketching, wireframes, UI flows, mock-ups, and prototypes.
- Helping in observing and annotating playtest videos and communicating findings to the team alongside User researchers.
- Helping with benchmarking, documenting, and communicating competitor features and games from a UX lense.
- Joining discussions, workshops and other design department activities
Experiences and skills we are looking for:
- Progress towards or degree in a related field or worked on/shipped at least one game in a UX role.
- Skills in any relevant design/prototyping tools such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, XD, Invision Studio, Figma, Proto.io, etc.
- Interests in mobile free to play games
- Courageous & Curious to ask questions
- Good communication and collaboration skills
We'd love it if you have some of these:
- Familiar or Interested in researching methodologies (Ex: Surveys, players Interviews, Usability tests etc.)
- General interest in human psychology, behavior, and motivation, especially in games
- Interests in visual or graphic design
- Basic UI art skills
- Basic prototyping skills
- Basic Experience with Unity game engine
If you’re interested, we look forward to hearing from you soon! Please send us your CV and cover letter by June 10th 2024 (if you have a portfolio, great! Please send us the link or attach it with the application). We will start interviewing as soon as possible.
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